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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 14h

🧵 A pro-MAGA bot network on X/Twitter that previously aided Trump to secure a 2nd term has just started helping him to retain power.

Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

🫣 Wow. "The entire press corps leaves the Pentagon..." sounds like the first line of a very dystopian novel.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

Five alarm fire that's illegal and impeachable. Newsrooms and electeds should be yelling this.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 15h

The greatest trick the FedSoc devils ever pulled was pretending that "considering race while trying to fix structural racism" is itself racist. It's a bad-faith argument, made by "polite" white supremacists.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 15h

I haven’t been in a movie theatre since 2019, and so because of all you assholes, my last theater memory is still freaking Rise of Skywalker. I hate you guys.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 15h

And so, a containable respiratory disease will continue to plague us, because most people “don’t see the point” of masking.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 15h

Most people still operate on a virtue theory of disease (even those who can recite the germ theory thereof.)

We don’t wash our hands because everyone has internalized the germ theory, but because mass public relations has tied hand washing to virtue.

There is no effort to tie masks to virtue.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans are also being largely silent during Mooppan's argument. They're bored with this now. They're made their decisions and think they know how to justify it.

Democrats are still trying to point out Roberts' BLATANT HYPOCRISY, but he's gone, folks. Roberts ain't never coming back.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 17h

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 18h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans are just pretending the 30-somethings in the racist Young Republicans group chat were in high school and college, marking the first time Republicans have wanted to move on when they think someone is a teen

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 17h

New Republican talking point of “no kings means no paychecks” is them DARING workers to go on a general strike.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 17h

such tender concern for the eardrums of a Capitol police officer if the sound is emanating from a liberal; no tender concern for their actual physical safety when the violence comes from Trump's insurrectionists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 18h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Meta on Tuesday removed a Facebook group that was used to share information about ICE agents in Chicago after the Department of Justice requested it be taken it down.

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17h

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 20h

In Colombia, fertility rates have fallen sharply in recent decades

The graphic presents a slope chart illustrating the fertility rate, defined as the average number of children a woman would bear if she experienced age-specific fertility rates observed in that year.

The chart covers the years from 1950 to 2023 and features four countries: Colombia, France, the United Kingdom, and China.

- In 1950, the fertility rates for these countries were notably higher, with Colombia at 6.4 births, China at 5.8 births, France at 3 births, and the United Kingdom at 2.2 births.
- By 2023, these rates have significantly declined, with Colombia, France, and the United Kingdom each at 1.6 births, and China at 1 birth per woman.

Data comes from the United Nations World Population Prospects for the year 2024. The chart is categorized under Creative Commons by attribution (CC BY).

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 20h

Colombia’s experience mirrors a wider change across many middle-income countries, including much of Latin America. Education of women, urbanization, declining infant mortality, family planning, and changing norms are all key drivers of this trend.

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